Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-04-22
lXCEADlAnlsM AND SUICIDE.
Statesman. April 10Th.

o'clock Saturday morning by mes
senger from some twelve miles down
the valley, that Adolph Hampel was
found dead in his cabin and that his
straw, hay, grain, ETC., had been burn
ed that night. County Coroner T.
w. Randall went down, and several
citizens, among them q. w. Moore,
Doctors Dubois, Collister and Smith,
and an inquest was held and all the
circumstances particularly inquired
into. Hampel is an Austrian by birth,
about 40 years old and single. He
has ranch CT 80 acres of land well
improved, about a mile north Of the
Middleton road, IL miles below here,
and timber culture of 100 acres,
with five acres of growing timber on
it. He had large stack of straw and
about forty tons of hay near by in a
stack. A stable covered with hay
contained three horses, and she'd
contained a sulky plow, mower, sulky
rake and wagon, and grainary con-
taining six or eight hundred bushels
Of grain. all of which were burned.
The neighbors, who are nearly mile
distant, discovered the fire about half
past ~ o'clock Friday night, and
those who saw it first. claim the stacks
were set on fire in three places. The
neighbors went there from two and
three miles, but could do nothing to
save the property. They went to the
house and found Hampel on his bed
dying or breathing his last, with a gun
shot wound in his head. He was AS
good as dead when found. The cir
cumstances indicate these facts
Hampel was probably awakened by
the light and cracking noise Of the
fire and jumped up hastily and put
on his overals and boots without socks
or even pulling his pants over bis
boots, and run out bare-headed and
let three horses out of the stable with
ropes on, and opened his hcnrocs1
door, and possibly tried to fight the
fire, as his face was smutty and Gin
ders of straw in his hair, hut to nc
purpose, and when he saw it must al
go he went to the house aud threw
his blankets out at the door, thinking
probably the house would burn, anc
he then sat down on the bed and in /
paroxysm of rage and anger-for ht
is known as u terrible tempered man
and many considered him crazy-h,
picked up pistol, which he Away
kept lying on box at the head of hi
bed, with his right hand clapped it t.
his head behind the ear and fired, tn,
ball coming out at the top of his hea'
and went up against the ceiling eigh
feet above, almost perpendicular, ant
fell to the floor close to the bed
and on the opposite side, and Ham
pei fell back on the bed with the pis
TO! in his hand, resting OH his breas
with his boots and pants on. Th
bed stands so close to the wall of I'll
house that no man could have crowd
ed in by him, and no other perso
could have fred ball that woul
take the direction of the ball tha
killed him, and for these reasons til
jury, and all who visited the plac
came to the conclusion that his deaf
was not the work of the person VIII
fired the stacks, but in fit of rag
and dependency in seeing the loss {
his property he grabbed the pist'
and put it to his head, (naturally lear
ing the head toward the pistol as |
put it against his head, which w;
evidently the case as the whole charg
of powder went into the wound
which gave the perpendicular dire
,ion of the ball. Hampel was sai
by his hired men to be hard man
, get along with and he had more 4
: less trouble with his neighbors. +
had several thousand sheep; SON
say 1000 and some say twice as man
and he herded them near the ranch
!, OH Dry Creek and had trouble wi
his neighbors on that account.
), PERSONS riding over county bridg
v NAV save themselves trouble and r
= sponsibility for damage by heedir
d the notice ordered by the Coun
i Commissioners to be posted on ca,
It of the bridges of the county:
1t reads thus: "Any person riding
1t driving over this bridge faster tn,
J walk shall be responsible for al
Ie da,ora that NAV arisa from such f.